Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Last ThursdayI showed you the cows coming in from
their pastures, and on MondayI showed you part of the milking process, so today
the video at the end will continue that story. If you have missed the about mentioned, and wish to see it, click on the yellow highlighted text.

Michelle
has been working for John Blair, the farmer for about 61/2 years and is an expert at milking the cows and Lauren is
studying Agriculture and is just about to go back to Harper Adams College, so John
will miss her help.

Milking machines

These
are some of the cows leaving after being milked.

The cows go into a holding yard where they have access to water and to a mixed ration of
silage, meal and straw.

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

These white Pigeons have been at the farm at Glynn, County
Antrim for generations. In fact there
has been 9 continuous generation of the Blair family farming here. Although this time I came to the farm to see
and video the milking, it was lovely to see these white Pigeons flying around.

I hope you enjoyed seeing all these beautiful birds on the video.I am linking this post with WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY.Many thanks for your visit and comments that you leave and tomorrow I will show you a video of the continuation of the milking process.

Monday, 28 September 2015

I took so much video footage
of the milking that I have divided between today and Wednesday’s post. Below is the milking parlour. The red necklace tag is on every cow and the
computer picks its signals up and works out over a week’s mike yield, what the
cow should be fed that day. The blue band is to remind the workers that the cow is a slow milker and needs more time.

This is Lauren who is reading Agriculture at

Harper Adams College,Newport, England.

After the cows are milked,
this is holding area were they have access to a mixed ration of silage, meal and straw before they go back into the field again.

Sunday, 27 September 2015

I walked into my local Ward Park again and as I told you last week, we have some birds in large cages. Now these cages this week had 1/4" square wire mesh so photographs were nearly impossible.However I watched the Buggies and two of them looked a bit amorous, kissing and cuddling up to one another and suddenly they copulated .These are the best shots I could get.

This
is a mug I found in my cupboard that one of my daughters gave me many years ago.

2.Afternoon

Both these shots are from my archives as neither of my daughters live in this country. The shot above was taken when my daughter Judith came home with her 2 children from Malawi and we all had a special afternoon tea in a restaurant using my great Grannies china which they are going to put on display when they open a bigger tea shop. This is Annika, my grand daughter.

This was taken when my
daughter Judith treated me to an afternoon tea at Huntington House in Malawi. Very up market guest accommodation on a wonderful tea plantation.

3. Less
is more

The childs bench seat was in the park and the feather came out of one of the Guinea Fowl that wander around the park.

4. High

Above, once again my class came to the rescue but giving me a high five.

I was going to add a shot I took of Scrabo Tower when I was out with my bird group but I froend, David Craig sent me this short video where he had flown his quadcopter over Scrabo Tower and I thought you might like to see that.CLICK HERE if the video does not appear.

Saturday, 26 September 2015

For those of you that have never seen a Dipper, let me
tell you they are never still so these shots are as good as I could manage although
the video at the end of this post will give you a better idea of it. Photographed at Glynn River.

A few Mallards also in the river.If the video does not appear below, CLICK HERE.

Thursday, 24 September 2015

My
shots are a bit back to front today as this first one is the view from the
field where we were bringing the cows of and I am ending with a shot of
when I told you yesterday I walked up to the bridge in Glynn village where I
saw the Dipper.

Although
it was a lovely sunny day, the wind was fierce as you will hear on the video at
the end, in fact on the first clip you cannot hear me at all!

Just
in case you cannot her what I am saying, we lead 190 milks over the road into
the farm laneway. There were actually
200 milked but he keeps some that are older and not as able to walk that
distance closer to the farm.

I
wonder did anyone spot the black and white bull among the cows?

This
is the bridge from the other side.

This
is the stone bridge I was telling you about.

It
is a bit dangerous standing there as the cars pass very close to you.

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I have retired from a medical background, from teaching a 3 year City and Guilds; and also running a Bed and Breakfast. I have taken up bird watching later in life however I became very enthusiastic from the beginning and was greatly encouraged by other bird watchers. For the past 8 years I have led a bird group in my town and have become a guest speaker on cruise shipstalking about Birds around the world. I have travelled quite a bit,in particular to Australia where one of my daughters lives. I have now as many birding friends there as at home in Northern Ireland. I love Nature and being able to share that with others of like mind. I also like photography and do my best to photograph birds although I sometimes get a bit frustrated as my zoom is just not powerful enough.

My daughter and family that were in Australia have now moved to Malawi to work and I have visited them several times as well as visiting Zambia. I.live in Northern Ireland which is part of the UK and it is a beautiful place to live however I love travelling and wil continnue to travel aslong as I am able. I would love to go to visit bloggers that I follow and they are always very welcome here in N. Ireland.